Prof John Hardy elected FRS

In support of this hypothesis, his group has been
involved in many of the subsequent findings which underpin it including
making amyloid depositing mice, identifying tau mutations as causative
in Pick's disease and in making transgenic mice with tangles and with
plaques and tangles (the full pathology of Alzheimer's disease).

His
group also identified synuclein gene duplications as causative for
Parkinson's disease and most recently have been using whole genome
analysis to study complex neurologic disease and gene
expression.